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F2 Wednesday, Feb. 18. 1998 LIVING The Atlanta Joumal-Constitutionn7 Twain's 'pure pop' song hits Top 40 market I' T. 'il Ui III disc jockeys will don aprons to bag groceries at area Winn-Dixie stores to help raise money for the American Cancer Society. Garry Kin- Look out, pop fans here comes Shania Twain.

The push is apparently on to sell the spandex-bound country singer's latest single, "You're Still the One," to Top 40 radio. Star 94 is playing the single, which music director J.R. Ammons describes as "pure pop." The video is airing on VH1, and someone has made sure that stacks of CDs and cassettes sey of country station tucks 101.5 will be at the Powder Springs store. Look for B98.5's morning team of Eddie Bauer and Christie Tanner on Monroe Drive. Y106.7's Dallas -McCade will be standing by the checkout line in Lawrenceville, while Moby sidekick Deb- orah Richards of Kicks 101.5 will be at the Austell Winn-Dixie.

The stores are donating percent of all sales to help fund the cancer ON RADIO MIRIAM LONGINO IPeachBuzz 0 are placed prominently at music store checkout lines. Twain, who is produced by husband and rock guru Mutt Lange (Def Leppard), has always used pop tricks to sell her country product Now it looks as if Mer RICHARD ELDREDGE Sports couples show some skin society's new Hope Lodge, a home away from home for families of cancer patients being 1 treated in Atlanta hospitals. GO, GIRLFRIEND! Country fans are familiar with the perfect voice of Sandra Carroll, news director at Y106.7. Little do they know she's got a side career as a sing-; er. Her vocal trio Girlfriend performs Thurs-' day night at the Buckboard Country Music Showcase in Smyrna.

She's opening for coun-. try singer Cindy Lou Harrington. Moby will be on hand as emcee. cury Records is ready to Twain have her strut past Reba Roots, Peter Noone and Johnny Rivers. SPREADING THE LOVE: Atlanta radio personalities softened some of their harder edges over the Valentine's Day weekend.

At talk radio WGST, Mike Rose and Dave Stone decided to help procrastinators by giving away 30 dozen roses to listeners of their "Saturday Morning Live" show. One eager boyfriend, Travis Fish, went so far as to come by the station and propose to his girlfriend on the air in order to snag the last-minute flowers. At WSB, consumer reporter Clark Howard broadcast live from the construction site of the Habitat for Humanity house he is sponsoring. And at oldies station Fox 97, J.J. Jackson turned his "Love Fest" show into a fund-raising opportunity, soliciting donations to help a listener pay for a double lung transplant MORE GOOD DEEDS: Maybe they put something in the water.

On Thursday, local 1 Atlanta Braves fans have an additional incentive to pore over the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue due out today. Pitcher Denny Neagle (right) and wife Jennifer were chosen to be part of the SI skin issue's "Portfolio" sports couples section, shot by world-renowned photog Francesco Scavullo. Jennifer was snapped sporting an electric-blue Philosophy Di Alberta Ferretti swimsuit. The price tag: $295. Denny, lying at his wife's feet, is fully clothed in his team uniform, com- McEntire and Patty Loveless to take on Celine Dion and Jewel.

OLDIES BUT GOODIES: Hang on to your vinyl they've set the date. The annual Fox 97 Ultimate Oldies Concert will be held May 16 this year in the Georgia Dome, and program director Bill Cahill is asking listeners to help plan the show. If you'd like to request a favorite oldies act for the station to consider booking, e-mail your suggestion to concertfox97.com Two rules apply: The act must be alive and must be the original artist Front-runners right now are the Grass it A CASE OF HOT DOGGING? Bob Bailey, the afternoon disc jockey and music expert extraordinaire on classic rock station Z93sounds so low key on the air. But his wedding on Saturday is revealing another side. He's going to and from the ceremony in the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.

E-mail: mlonginoajc.com BOX OFFICE plete with glove. Says Jennifer of being a Braves wife: "Last year we went to Japan for an All-Star tour, and a lot of the Japanese fans asked the American wives for autographs. It was pretty strange. I learned how hard it is to actually write on a baseball." Also included in the magazine and wearing considerably less: former University of Georgia star running back Herschel Walker and wife Cindy. Meanwhile, on Page 101 in the "It's Raining Weathergirls" section, WAGA-TV forecaster and SI model Nancy Loveland answers the tough questions.

On what kind of weather pattern she'd be, Loveland told SI, "A typical Southern July day; starts out sunny and warm but can become stormy." According to the weekend weather wizard, the sexiest meteorological term by far is "thundersnow. It can drop several inches of snow in a short time, and it gets me excited." DOONESBURY By Garry Trudeau murs7fmmcoN AJ'WTTS (xsm.at0JW7Ksc Y'faSfU 12!" Here are the Top 10 weekend box office receipts for Atlanta. Numbers in parentheses show how the films ranked nationally. 1. "Titanic" (1) $422,091 2.

'The Wedding Singer" (2) $217322 3. "Sphere" (3) $188,534 4. "Good Will Hunting" (4) $106,131 5. "As Good as It Gets" (5) $99,625 6. "The Borrowers" (6) $74,885 7.

"The Replacement Killers" (7) $71,916 8. "The Apostle" (11) $64,257 9. "Blues Brothers 2000" (9) $56,532 Jamaica cuts bloody 'Amistad' scenes 10. "Great Expectations" (8) $54,726 Source: Entertainment Data Inc. Cirque Deux Soleil Cumming residents Ray and Rosemary de St.

Aubin are beginning to suspect they've been married too long. Take Valentine's Day, for example. Ray expected cries of delight from his bride of 43 years when he handed over a Valentine with two pricey tickets to Cirque Du Soleil's upcoming "Qui-dam," scheduled to hit town in October. Instead, he heard peals of laughter coming from the kitchen. Yup, Rose had gotten Ray the same exact thing.

"I have a little account of my own and paid cash so he wouldn't see the tickets on the credit card bill," Rose told us Tuesday. So whose tickets will be used? "His are still coming, so we'll see what seats are better," she says. "I dont think we'll have a problem getting rid of the other tickets. We have seven kids." Museum-quality buds Been tempted to take a trowel to the lush landscaping at Emory University as you drive past this time of year? To save you from possible incarceration, the campus is now offering you a chance to buy the same varieties of spring flowers as part of a spring fund-raiser for the Michael Carlos Museum of Emory University. Unique varieties of geraniums, begonias, impatiens, salvia and marigolds will be available, in pots and flats, for order until April 1.

Pickup will be April 17 and 18 at the museum's back door on South Kilgo Street. For more info, call 404-727-2251. A prepared Pearl When Atlanta columnist, playwright and novelist Pearl Cleage turned up for a book-signing in support of her first novel, "What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day," at Out-write Bookstore and Coffeehouse last week, she came prepared. As Outwrite owner Phillip Rafshoon was about to go off in search of a permanent marker so Cleage could sign the store's authors' wall, Cleage told Rafshoon, "Oh, don't bother, I have one with me," and promptly produced a Sharpie marker out of her bag. "It's the first time here I've ever seen an author that prepared," Raf- shoon told Buzz.

On Tuesday, Outwrite also announced a coup: an exclusive March 13 in-store appearance by novelist and Paris resident Edmund White. White will sign "The Farewell Symphony," which is being described as the HIV-positive and activist author's "career masterpiece." Movie's opening called too intense ASSOCIATED PRESS Kingston, Jamaica Censors say the opening scenes of the movie "Amistad" are too much for Jamaican audiences: The screen fills with blood as African captives hack to death European enslavers transporting them in Caribbean waters. So when the movie opens today in Jamaica where more than 90 percent of the people are descendants of West Africans brought here by slave traders the scenes will be cut. censored." The Cinematographic Authority also prohibited the movie from being shown to people under 18. The film carries an or restricted, rating in the United States, which means a viewers under 18 must be accompanied by an adult "It is an adult movie," said the Rev.

Stanford Webley, president of the film board. "Amistad" tells the story of a group of slaves who take over a Spanish ship, then stand trial in the United States for killing the crew. The movie, produced by Steven Spielberg, has been nom-, -inated for four Academy Awards. Critics assailed the government-appointed Jamaican Cinematographic Authority's decision to cut the scenes, saying the action dilutes the movie's version of Caribbean history. "Everything that deals with the history of our people is treated with the conspiracy of silence," said Rex Nettleford, vice chancellor at the University of the West Indies.

"It's a real disappointment." "I associate censorship with a closed society," said Douglas Graham, owner of the three theaters where the film will be shown. "We live in an open society. I don't think any part of the film should be deleted, cut or SONY ACQUIRES 'WILDE' HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Sony Pictures Classics has picked up U.S. and English-speaking Canadian rights to the Oscar Wilde biopic "Wilde," starring Stephen Fry and Jude Law. The picture will open May 1 in New York.

IT 7F Ji.A'"" HQVY Register to win a $100 gift certificate! Why are some kids doing so much better than others? Why can some parents "get through" to their kids while others can't? According to Robert Davidson, there are six essential habits that highly successful 1 CELEBRITY NEWS OUTSIDE ATLANTA 'floseanne's' Goodman goes Hollywood parents have developed I OP i if 1 1 to help them raise well-adjusted, self-confident kids. A I i r. i- Author of "In My Life after "Roseanne" doesn't mean John Goodman (left) is hard to find. The big guy is all over the big screen with "Fallen," "Blues Brothers 2000" and "The Borrowers." A fourth movie featuring Goodman, "The Big Lebowski," will be released March 6. Goodman plays Walter Sob-chak, an argumentative Vietnam veteran who is a friend and bowling teammate of Jeff Lebowski, portrayed by Jeff Bridges.

"It's weird the way it turned out. Four things coming out at once," Goodman told the Daily News of Los r1 i Father's Garden" at the .1:1 Southeastern Flower Show As the author of "How Good Parents Raise Great Kids," Mr. Davidson has offered his findings to audiences across the country, and has been featured, on numerous TV talk shows, and in newspapers and magazines. Please join us for this lively program as Mr. Davidson shares his stories and explains how good parents handle today's hard choices and tough calls to head off trouble before It begins.

6ooJ ovoilaWe fcrtakand signing by Robert Dovtdson after the program. Thursday, February 19 lp.m. 3p.m. at City Hall East don't know if it's going to be good or bad, but they're all pretty different" Actor takes on Lee over 'Jackie Brown' I Actor Samuel Jackson blasted Spike Lee Tuesday at the Berlin Film Festival for the filmmaker's criticism of the movie "Jackie Brown" because of its use of the word." Jackson, who stars in the Quentin Tarantino movie, said Lee poses as the elected voice of black people. "I didn't get a chance to vote in that election," the actor said.

"Black artists think they are the only ones allowed to use the word. Well, that's bull. 'Jackie Brown' is a wonderful homage to black exploitation films of the 1970s. This is a good film. And Spike hasn't made one of those in a few years." Jackson readies South Korea concert No word yet from Himself yet, but the South Korean government is saying that Michael Jackson is pulling together a big Seoul concert Oct.

10 to help starving kids in North Korea. A Presidentelect Kim Dae-jung aide said it's tentatively called "We Are the World 2" and that Jackson "has been and will be contacting some 50 other celebrities and world leaders for participation," including Boyz II Men, Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. The aide added teat taped messages are being sought from Nelson Mandela and Pope John Paul II to be aired during a live broadcast to 120 nations. Contributing: News services. If you have an Item, call 404-222-8503, 404-614-2749 or fax 404-526-SS09.

E-mail: buua4 com Ft 7 -or; central t.4 THE.SIX ESSENTIAL HABITS HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PARENTS You're invited to meet lee May, noted author and gardening columnist, who will be signing his book at the Southeastern Flower Show. Just stop by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution booth Thursday, February 19, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. While there, don't forget to register to win a $100 gift certificate. the Atlanta Journal Tl IE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION DeKalb Medical Center Promina Nationally kww author ov4 spcclci.